Byron Wells
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17-year-old Tackles both lakes.
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Happy 20th Birthday Wastebusters!
PHOTO: Wastebusters
Last week Wastebusters celebrated its 20th birthday. Originally called WÄ naka Wastebusters, the organisation became Wastebusters when it joined forces with Alexandra about five years ago. But it has been a staple of WÄ naka life in one form or the other for the past two decades. Here the Wastebusters staff celebrate the occasion with cake! About 200 members of the public joined them for cake.
Mt Iron Junction: end in sight Pat Deavoll
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$30 million development at the junction of State Highway 84 and SH6 is still a possibility according to Mt Iron Junction co-owner Steve Schikker, despite a resource consent application being declined earlier in the year.
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Schikker was in mediation with the Queenstown Lakes District Council over his company's development proposal which included building a service station, workers accommodation, terrace housing, mini-golf facility and a child care centre. After a hearing in February, the company's proposal was declined because the land was zoned rural general and the landscape changes
would be more than minor. But Schikker said that despite the slow progress he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Where are you at now? Nothing has happened in the last month or two. We applied to the Environment Court, and part of that process was to go to mediation. We had mediation about two months ago, and now we are working through the terms of consent
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which is always a little bit tricky. You have an idea what was said in mediation then the Council has an idea, and it's a matter of finding the middle ground of what they thought was said and what we thought was said. So the upside is we put all our revised plans into the Council, and we are about to have a meeting with them. Continued on page 3